Brethren, do not prove yourselves to be children in your minds. As regards evil, indeed, be utter babes, but as regards your minds prove yourselves to be men of ripe years.

Yet we do speak wisdom among those spiritually mature [believers who have teachable hearts and a greater understanding]; but [it is a higher] wisdom not [the wisdom] of this present age nor of the rulers and leaders of this age, who are passing away;

For first of all, it has come to my ears that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and I take the statement to be true in part.

And God hath, indeed, set, certain, in the assembly, - first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that mighty works, then gifts of healings, helps, guidings, kinds of tongues.

If, however, unto another, a revelation be made, as he is sitting, let the first be silent;

For I delivered unto you, among the first things, what also I received: - how that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures,

Thus, also, it is written - The first man, Adam, became, a living soul, the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.

Howbeit, not first, is the body of the spirit, but that, of the soul, - afterwards, that of the spirit.

The first man, is of the ground, earthy, the second man, is, of heaven:

Upon the first of the week, let, each one of you, put, by itself, in store, as he may be prospering, - lest, as soon as I come, then, collections, should be in progress.

Now I beseech you, brethren, - ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is a first-fruit of Achaia, and, for the purpose of ministering, they devoted themselves, unto the saints -